(formerly Max Planck Institute for European Legal History) The researchers of the Max Planck Institute for Legal History and Legal Theory (mpilhlt), located in Frankfurt am Main, engage in research on the history and theory of law. Established in 1964, the Institute, with its three departments, the specialist library with over 470,000 printed media units as well as numerous international visitors, has become a worldwide hub for those working on past and present national and transnational legal orders.

Welcome to the Max Planck Institute for Legal History and Legal Theory

(formerly Max Planck Institute for European Legal History)
The researchers of the Max Planck Institute for Legal History and Legal Theory (mpilhlt), located in Frankfurt am Main, engage in research on the history and theory of law. Established in 1964, the Institute, with its three departments, the specialist library with over 470,000 printed media units as well as numerous international visitors, has become a worldwide hub for those working on past and present national and transnational legal orders.

Since 1 January 2021, the Max Planck Institute for European Legal History has a new name:
Max Planck Institute for Legal History and Legal Theory / Max-Planck-Institut für Rechtsgeschichte und Rechtstheorie (mpilhlt).

Multidisciplinary Theory of Law

Department Marietta Auer
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Historical Regimes of Normativity

Department Thomas Duve
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European and Comparative Legal History

Department Stefan Vogenauer
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Governance of the Universal Church after the Council of Trent

Research Group

Translations and Transitions

Research Group

News

Book Launch: Studies in the Contract Laws of Asia, Volume III

March 04, 2021

A Bibliographical Quartet in the ‘Subsidia et Instrumenta’ series (mpilhlt Research Paper Series)

March 03, 2021

New translation project:
China – Norms, Ideas, Practices.

March 01, 2021

13th Frankfurt Investment Arbitration Moot Court (2020/2021)

February 26, 2021

The significance of the language of law for the global history of ideas

February 02, 2021

JEV – Fellowship for European Administrative History

January 22, 2021

Events

The School of Salamanca on Slavery: from ius gentium to ius civile

Mar 10, 2021 14:30 - 16:00
video conference, Room: For further information please contact salamanca@rg.mpg.de

Working Group: Using Normative Knowledge from the Past

Mar 10, 2021 16:00 - 18:00
video conference, Room: For further information, please contact woods@rg.mpg.de

Jürgen Osterhammel's ‘The Transformation of the World. A Global History of the Nineteenth Century’

Mar 17, 2021 09:30 - 11:00
video conference, Room: For further information please contact hk-translations-transitions@rg.mpg.de

Anke Hübenthal on mentoring, role models and opening doors

Mar 26, 2021 12:00 - 13:00
video conference, Room: For further information please contact minervalawnet@rg.mpg.de

Reflections on Writing the Slave Trade into Histories of International Criminal Law

Apr 12, 2021 14:15 - 15:15
video conference, Room: For further information please contact cazzola@rg.mpg.de

A History of Privileged Inventing in Bengal: A Study of the Patenting System in India, 1856-1888

Apr 19, 2021 14:15 - 15:15
video conference, Room: For further information please contact cazzola@rg.mpg.de
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